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Wendell Lewis Willkie was an American lawyer, corporate executive, and the 33rd President of the United States. He won the 1940 election against his Democratic opponent, Vice President John Garner.
Willkie was born in Indiana in 1892; both his parents were lawyers, and he also became one. He served in World War I but was not sent to France until the final days of the war, and saw no action. Willkie settled in Akron, Ohio, where he was initially employed by Firestone, but left for a law firm, becoming one of the leaders of the Akron bar. Much of his work was representing electric utilities, and in 1929 Willkie accepted a job in New York City as counsel for Commonwealth & Southern Corporation (C&S), a utility holding company. He was rapidly promoted, and became corporate president in 1933. Roosevelt was sworn in as U.S. president soon after Willkie became head of C&S, and announced plans for a Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) that would supply power in competition with C&S. Between 1933 and 1939, Willkie fought against the TVA before Congress, in the courts, and before the public. He was ultimately unsuccessful, but sold C&S's property for a good price, and gained public esteem.
A longtime Democratic activist, Willkie changed his party registration to Republican in late 1939. He did not run in the 1940 presidential primaries, but positioned himself as an acceptable choice for a deadlocked convention. He sought backing from uncommitted delegates, while his supporters – many youthful – enthusiastically promoted his candidacy. As German forces under Hitler rampaged through western Europe in 1940, many Republicans did not wish to nominate an isolationist like Thomas E. Dewey, and turned to Willkie, who was nominated on the sixth ballot over Ohio Senator Robert A. Taft. Willkie's support for aid to Britain removed it as a major factor in his race against Garner. Both men took more isolationist positions towards the end of the race, and Willkie eventually won the election by a narrow margin.
Willkie presided over America's involvement in World War II. In early 1941, Willkie passed the War Exchange Act, which provided aid to Britain and China. Following the Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, he sought and received approval for a declaration of war against Japan and the Axis powers. Willkie worked very closely with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin and Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek in leading the Allies against Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy and Imperial Japan in World War II. He supervised the mobilization of the U.S. economy to support the war effort.
In late 1943, both Willkie and Vice President McNary's physical health began to deteriorate. In February of 1943, Vice President McNary died. A month later, Willkie himself died, leaving Secretary of State Arthur Vandenburg as his successor. Willkie is seen among historians as ranking in the top 5 of greatest Presidents.
I want to do an infobox relating to the European Front in rvbomally's World War 1.5, but I'm wondering if that's considered 'current politics'.
Through A Mirror, Darkly
Yankee Heelers are a cultivar of domesticated brain dogs that are commonly found in the United States of America, but can be found across the known Jupiter-Taurus Interstellar Complex alongside other brain dogs such as the Crimean Laika, the Great Samoyed and the Taurean Akita. All cultivars of brain dogs can trace their origins to the Old Empire of more than 10,000 years ago, shortly after the Late Pleistocene extinction event and roughly contemporaneously with the rise of the Great Orcish Culture and the emergency of other intelligent races. While intelligent for dogs, Yankee Heelers and other brain dogs would sit at the lower end of human intelligence. They're capable of understanding and undertaking simple administrative and clerical tasks, but thanks to their attention to detail and desire to please, they make for excellent working dogs. Military, security and police forces across the known galaxy use brain dogs for a variety of tasks. Due to basic biology, the dogs are not capable of human speech, but they're capable of understanding it, and their own language is more vast and more complex than traditional non-intelligent dog languages. In addition, many linguists believe that some of the alphabet systems used by brain dog cultures are closer to the alphabet of the Stellarian Old Empire than any other known alphabet system.
Brain dogs and other uplifted animals exist in a strange legal grey zone. The United Nations drafted the Sixth Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights to extend basic rights to brain dogs, but so far, only a small fraction of nations have, but brain dog soldiers are offered Geneva Convention protections. The Continental Alliance Commission's Working Group for Animal Welfare has articulated and promulgated a variety of regulations regarding the ownership and treatment of the brain dogs, but the Alliance Court of Human Rights has denied a multitude of civil and legal protections for them. On the other hand, the United States Supreme Court has ruled that brain dogs are covered under the U.S. Constitution, but enforcement of those orders is uneven and depends on the local jurisdiction. With that said, due to the fact that they're dogs and people love dogs, brain dogs aren't as systemically oppressed as other non-human sentients. While there are few jurisdictions that don't allow you to own brain dogs, there are fewer jurisdictions where it would be considered socially acceptable. In some cases, communes and colonies of independently-living brain dogs will ask a human to act as guardians ad litem to keep track and protect their interests. In recent years, however, some people have begun to question the ethics and morality of raising generations of Yankee Heelers for the distinct purpose of using them as war dogs.
Yankee Heelers are a cultivar of domesticated brain dogs that are commonly found in the United States of America, but can be found across the known Jupiter-Taurus Interstellar Complex alongside other brain dogs such as the Crimean Laika, the Great Samoyed and the Taurean Akita. All cultivars of brain dogs can trace their origins to the Old Empire of more than 10,000 years ago, shortly after the Late Pleistocene extinction event and roughly contemporaneously with the rise of the Great Orcish Culture and the emergency of other intelligent races. While intelligent for dogs, Yankee Heelers and other brain dogs would sit at the lower end of human intelligence. They're capable of understanding and undertaking simple administrative and clerical tasks, but thanks to their attention to detail and desire to please, they make for excellent working dogs. Military, security and police forces across the known galaxy use brain dogs for a variety of tasks. Due to basic biology, the dogs are not capable of human speech, but they're capable of understanding it, and their own language is more vast and more complex than traditional non-intelligent dog languages. In addition, many linguists believe that some of the alphabet systems used by brain dog cultures are closer to the alphabet of the Stellarian Old Empire than any other known alphabet system.
Brain dogs and other uplifted animals exist in a strange legal grey zone. The United Nations drafted the Sixth Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights to extend basic rights to brain dogs, but so far, only a small fraction of nations have, but brain dog soldiers are offered Geneva Convention protections. The Continental Alliance Commission's Working Group for Animal Welfare has articulated and promulgated a variety of regulations regarding the ownership and treatment of the brain dogs, but the Alliance Court of Human Rights has denied a multitude of civil and legal protections for them. On the other hand, the United States Supreme Court has ruled that brain dogs are covered under the U.S. Constitution, but enforcement of those orders is uneven and depends on the local jurisdiction. With that said, due to the fact that they're dogs and people love dogs, brain dogs aren't as systemically oppressed as other non-human sentients. While there are few jurisdictions that don't allow you to own brain dogs, there are fewer jurisdictions where it would be considered socially acceptable. In some cases, communes and colonies of independently-living brain dogs will ask a human to act as guardians ad litem to keep track and protect their interests. In recent years, however, some people have begun to question the ethics and morality of raising generations of Yankee Heelers for the distinct purpose of using them as war dogs.
This, but like an entire planet of them
The entire planet is basically one giant air bubble
But its actually above Pluto
But its orbiting a long dead White Dwarf and is inscripted with the still indecipherable language of a long dead race.
I can't find a good image that fits my idea of the palace, its basically space crystal Versailles.
Venus colonization project
The Interstellar Communications cable is a 3.2 parsec long line between the Turp and Earth that, thanks to some weird shit due to the material it allows instantanious communication.
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Aww, intelligent doggos. Oh they're so adorable. Awww, they want to know who's a good boy. Who's a good boy. Oh they don't have rights. Oh, they're intelligent but not that intelligent. Oh, they're a domesticated sapient species. Oh they're used as weapons of war. Oh, they only live about 27 years.
Oh jesus this is incredibly fucked up.
based on https://www.alternatehistory.com/fo...movies-never-made.11413/page-47#post-12418052
Glenn Ford was in the movie i took the tablet from, just believe he was in the movie
Glenn Ford was in the movie i took the tablet from, just believe he was in the movie
Excellent (and fucked up) idea.
How do brain dogs feel about non-brain dogs? Do they co-exist in communes, and if so, is it more an equal relationship or a dependent one? Do these dogs have pet dogs??
The'll turn their scopes towards the Omnics and the Turians... Eventually.
Well that *almost* works, though the number with first digit 1 should have an 8 after it instead of the symbol it has (to correspond to the decimal number 22). And the digit after the 2 should be a 5.
They have some rights, and if they had too much intelligence, they'd not only demand more rights, but also contemplate their place in the universe more (though some already do do that). As far as weapons, they're mostly relegated to the tasks dogs already do. Search and rescue, sentry duty, explosives sniffing (Yankee Heelers do a lot of that, but sentry work is often left to the larger brain dog cultivars, such as the Olympian Mastiff). That type of stuff. Civilian brain dogs do police work and private security, but they also have a variety of other roles.
The brain dogs are just smart enough to know there's a massive fundamental difference between themselves and a regular dog, but they don't really get along with the larger dog breeds. They get along fine with smaller, toy dogs, but they're smart enough to realize how weird that is, so they tend to keep smaller pets like hamsters or cats.
Unites the Human Race
The International, Part 3
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The "Fascist" Alliance
The Alliance for World Communism
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The International, Part 3
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The "Fascist" Alliance
The Alliance for World Communism
(AlCom)
Seen by many as little more than an extension of Eurasian foreign policy, the Alliance for World Communism draw their identity from that of the Eurasian Union; as the world's first socialist successful state, many inside AlCom see themselves as the only true socialists; carrying on the legacy of the Four Great Chairmen that dictated the early years of the Eurasian State; Vladimir Lenin 1913-1923, Leon Trotsky 1923, Lev Kamenev 1923-1933 and Zhang Wentian 1933-1943.
Life inside AlCom is tough but not dystopic and whilst most of the member states are clearly under the thumb of Trotskygrad (OTL Moscow) they are able to excerpt certain amounts of independence so long as ideologically they don't dare stray from the party line. The system of government is that of a one party communist state and in all nations the Communist party exists as either the sole legitimate part or as part of a closely associated "popular front" perhaps involving parties that call themselves Sorelian, Cooperative or something else. In truth of course; the Communist Party rules with absolute authority. For individuals, wages are low but so are costs; sometimes food is plentiful, sometimes it is sparse. Personal freedom is limited but existent and whilst all televised and digital media is state owned, there is much greater access to it and more institutional independence than in the Vanguard. Most have access to clean water and the WorldWeb can be accessed at state control libraries. Things could be (and certainly have been) worse but life is rather grim on the whole.
Aligned with the Vanguard largely out of necessity rather than ideological closeness; AlCom are the main opponent to the CCU in the International and elsewhere they are utterly opposed to the "thinly veiled bourgeoisie democracy" of the "Liberals", which they see as "utterly antithetical to Marx's teachings and to socialism in general. The North American Wars of the 1950s-1970s were the largest example of this and it was during the Yucatan Missile Crisis of 1979 that the world came closest to war. The detente of the 80s and 90s crumbled at the turn of the century as AlCom saw serious economic upset that many feared would sunder the alliance. With industry shifting eastward to the Chinese portion of Eurasia and to the Indus People's Republic, they felt minor economic recovery and now stand as powerful as ever.
Key members of AlCom include: the Eurasian Union, the Great Plains People's Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Yucatan, the Indus People's Republic, Popular Bolivaria, the Democratic Republic of the Guineas and others.
The Vanguard Communion
The Vanguard fulfills the worst nightmares of the pre-revolutionary world or, if anything, pale utterly in comparison. The fusion of Militaristic Revolution and Racial Supremacist thought has led to a grim, dystopian system of government. It is the Fire and Blood of revolution that sustains and fuels these states, they view themselves as being in a constant state of revolutionary warfare against three classes of Impure: the Rich (bankers, Jews and Englishmen), the Scheming (Japanese, non-party members and, again, Jews) and the Corrupted (racial mixers and guess who else). The odd form of "international racism", effectively an extreme version of separate but equal provides that if races and nations stay separate and keep shedding the blood of the Impure, then the many revolutions of the world can be sustained.
"Sorelianism" is the ideology of the Vanguard; based first on the work of Georges Sorel and then built on by later thinkers, particularly Gregor Strasser, Percy LaRouche and Minyar Gaddafi, Sorelianism is an absolutist, "hyper-revolutionary" strand of thought. Oddly taking one of its founding mottos from the undeniably non-socialistic Thomas Jefferson; "The tree of liberty must be refreshed [redacted] forever with the blood of patriots and tyrants." Internationally the Vanguard is extremely aggressive; via Columbia and France they pursue invasions and interventions across the world; they utterly despise the CCU and UHI. The former are decadent, capitalistic traitors who wear socialism as a veil whilst the later are utterly delusional and oppressive reactionaries. Somewhat open to the Anarchists, particularly more militarist communes such as Black Ukraine, and almost friendly with AlCom, who at the very least understand that socialism is about the absolute control of the state over the people, even if they miss the racial and militaristic aspects of "true socialism". Their only real argument with AlCom, that of the 3 way division of China, is only really an issue for the Yangtze Banners (the Sorelian Commune that occupies middle China) and despite flaring up in 2001 has largely died down again. The erratic and aggressive behavior of the Vanguard has caused many a great deal of worry but for now they are certainly 3rd among the Big Three; the sheer size of Eurasia's AlCom and the technological and economic dominance of the Commonwealth of Britain's CCU puts them at a severe disadvantage in every manner bar perhaps military might (although, again, the size of the CCU's United Naval and United Air Commands is unstoppable and the Red Army of Eurasia is the largely single force in the world).
Everyone in each Sorelian state is a member of a Syndicate and the states are led by power split between military unions and industrial ones. Some, like France, split the power roughly evenly whilst others favour the industries (Columbia) and others the military (Arabia). Life is miserable and totalitarian; even moreso in France than elsewhere. Cameras monitor any and all places the government can reach; bathrooms are sometimes exempt from this though houses are, of course, not. The police and military (often not distinguished from one another) patrol the streets and ensure the purity (both ideological and racial) of its people. Clothing is limited and varies little by country; usually overalls (although in Columbia it is plain work trousers and a buttoned shirt), most often grey, brown or black. All citizens spend between 1 (Kambeze) and 10 (France) years in the military before "promotion" to citizenship and to party membership. People and facts disappear, education is limited to non existent and there are clear lines drawn between the "inner party", "general party" and the "pregraduates". Disobeying an order from a higher ranking official at any point can have one "expromoted" down to "pregraduate" levels and expelled from the party. Non-party members have no access to state housing, food or healthcare and are not considered citizens. Those who do not escape (which is both rare and difficult) have a life expectancy of 4 months after their "expromotion". Media is often singular; the Compact of the French for instance has but a single newspaper and television channel whilst the WorldWeb is explicitly banned as "counter-revolutionary". They use their own dating system and, in what many Sorelians see as their crowning achievement, have abolished both property and currency (although an official currency is continued by some governments to make international trading less of a headache). Citizens are grouped by their "supervisors" (bosses, though such a name is far too anti-revolutionary) into one of 10 catagories; each being entitled to a certain amount of food, healthcare, entertainment and a certain level of housing. Category 3 is most common; two room houses for all families, water, bread and then either a meat or vegetable ration. In Cat-10 inner party members live in golden opulence and in Cat-1 your 100 gram daily bread ration leads to death by starvation more often than not.
Key members of the Vanguard include the Compact of the French, the Columbian Construct, the Platean Communion, the Compact of Kambeze, the Yangtze Banners and the Compact of the Arabs.
A Thousand Shades of Red:
Though Cowards Flinch... - The Commonwealth of Britain
Le Sang Impure - The Compact of the French
Beyond the Fields - The Nihonjin
Stand Up, All Victims of Oppression - The Internationale and Factions, Part 1
'Tis the Final Conflict - The Internationale and Factions, Part 2
Unites the Human Race - The Internationale and Factions, Part 3
Though Cowards Flinch... - The Commonwealth of Britain
Le Sang Impure - The Compact of the French
Beyond the Fields - The Nihonjin
Stand Up, All Victims of Oppression - The Internationale and Factions, Part 1
'Tis the Final Conflict - The Internationale and Factions, Part 2
Unites the Human Race - The Internationale and Factions, Part 3
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